Re:Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (2011)
by LAC-Tech on Sunday December 24, 2023 @03:41PM
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Indeed, it's the same word! In the ancestor language of both English and German (and also Dutch, Low German, and many others) it's been reconstructed as "þū".
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Re:Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (2011)
by amelius on Sunday December 24, 2023 @07:03PM
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What is the ancestor language, and how do you pronounce þū?
Re:Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (2011)
by pvg on Sunday December 24, 2023 @09:34PM
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proto-West Germanic by current thinking (at least, by Wikipedia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Germanic_languages#Validi...